Blog Environment Research Articles

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The aim of this study is to examine the use of threaded discussions in the blog environment in terms of the factors affecting student course satisfaction. Experimental and control groups were selected, and the students in the experimental group participated in threaded discussions in the blog environment. In the study, students in both groups were asked to share, in the blog environment, their course materials and reports about the subjects included in the course. The experimental group was asked to participate in asynchronous threaded discussions, and feedback about the quality of their participation was rapidly provided by the researchers. The data, collected before and after the experiment, were distributed online. According to the findings, the effect of threaded discussions on students’ beliefs about blogs and peer review was not significant, and perceived learning, sense of community, collaborative learning, and threaded discussion were the variables that predicted course satisfaction. The students’ satisfaction scores were not affected by their beliefs about blogs, peer review, and their ability to organize multimedia features.

TEACHER CANDIDATES’ OPINIONS ABOUT COOPERATIVE E-PORTFOLIO ACTIVITIES IN THE BLOG ENVIRONMENT

In this study, it is aimed to reveal the opinions of the pre-service teacher candidates attending the Pedagogical Formation Education Certificate Program in the 2015-2016 academic year on the use of blogs with small and large groups in the teaching process, and to determine their views on the integration of various activities in different sub-processes of teaching. For this purpose, two classes were studied. First class was divided into groups and each group worked on its own blog page, and the second class was divided into groups to allow all groups to work on a single blog page. In the Instructional Technologies and Material Design course, the activities held every week were shared in the blog environment and comments were made. Pre-service teacher candidates’ opinions were taken in writing. In this context, the study is a qualitative case study. The findings were analyzed by using content analysis method and presented as themes and supported with visuals.

Preservice teachers’ identity construction: emergence of expected and feared teacher-selves

Very little research has focused on the development of preservice teachers’ professional identity formation in a blog environment. Informed by possible-selves theory, this study focuses on how 15 preservice English language teachers’ blogging engagements influenced their expected and feared teacher-selves. Data was comprised of the participants’ reflective blog postings on their and their peers’ videorecorded teaching practice experiences, their blog interactions, and semi-structured interviews. Results of the qualitative data analysis illustrate how preservice English language teachers are inspired by both examples of ‘good’ teaching as well as by examples of how other teachers manage similar challenges. Participants articulated a greater scope of expected teacher-selves relevant to interpersonal relationships, instructional strategies, and professional qualities based on examples of ‘good’ teaching. Observation of peers who encountered similar obstacles during teaching practice lessons, however, led participants to generate feared teacher-selves focused mainly on classroom management and instructional strategies. These feared teacher selves were more limited in scope, however, vis-a-vis the expected teacher selves generated based on “good” teaching examples.

Gender differences among young adult cancer patients: a study of blogs.

The Internet has increasing relevance and practical use as a tool to support cancer care. For example, health support Web sites are now widely used to connect specific groups of patients who may otherwise have remained isolated, and understanding their health-related online behaviors will help in the development of more effective health support Web sites. This article examined blogs written by young adults affected by cancer and in particular examined the gender differences in these blog entries through content analysis. The results showed there is little difference in blog content between genders. This suggests that the blog environment could lessen the gender-typical behaviors often expected by society and may provide an outlet for young adult cancer patients to more freely share their cancer-related experiences, at the same time providing an opportunity for social connection. This is particularly significant for male patients who are known to inhibit their emotions as well as the expression of their health concerns.

What Pre-service Teacher Student Said Arranging and Publishing Blog Page

In this study, aim was to provide pre-service mathematics student teachers with a new learning and teaching experience while they were playing two roles as learners and teachers within a arranging and publishing blog environment. The question of study was to investigate how a blog-mathematics course affected the ideas pre-service mathematics student teachers as a result of their experiences within that environment. The study showed that participants were: Willing toimplement blog construction activities about geometry lessons for their students; Willing to develop new methood sands trategies for conceptual geometry lessons; and to gain new perspectives on developing a blog as a teacher; Able to discover the importance of good team communication and appreciate developing a product for their students.Willing to uses ocial soft ware (wikipedia, wiktionaryetc.)It was concluded that the mathematic thinking processmay be improved as a result of preaparing a blogpage in mathematics teaching.Thus by considering the positive effects of blog page instruction, wesuggest that thephylosophical aspects and dynamics behind instructional technology should be clearly understood by teachers. Therefore educational faculties need to perform more research in this field.

Mining Of Influential Users in a Blog Network

Blogging sites are very popular in today’s world; users interact with each other and create social relationships between them. Data mining methods can be used to extract the blogging sites. Users can be active or dormant in a blog environment, they could be directly influenced by the motivators or not. Direct DCP and Indirect DCP both can be calculated. Some influential user’s motivates the other normal users on the basis of some features through which rating could be high and it could be increase the business in terms of monetary. Determining the Content Power Users (CPU) is very essential now a day. It represents the blogging atmosphere which is used to calculate the influential users.

Using a Blog to Create and Support a Community of Inquiry in Secondary Education

Understanding how blogs can support collaborative learning is a vital concern for researchers and teachers. This article explores how blogs may be used to support secondary education students' collaborative interaction and how such an interaction process can promote the creation of a Community of Inquiry to enhance critical thinking and meaningful learning. A science case-based project in which 15 secondary students participated was designed, implemented and evaluated. Students worked on the science blogging project for four months. Students were asked to be collaboratively engaged in purposeful critical discourse and reflection in their blogs in order to collectively solve science challenges and construct meaning about topics related to astronomy and space sciences. Through student comments posted in the blog, the findings showed that the blog environment afforded the construction of a Community of Inquiry and therefore the creation of an effective online collaborative learning community. In student blog comments, the three presences for collaborative learning took place: cognitive, social, and teaching presence. Moreover, this research found a positive correlation among the three presences — cognitive, social and teaching — of the Community of Inquiry model with the level of learning obtained by the students. This article discusses a series of issues that instructors should consider when blogs are incorporated into teaching and learning. It is claimed that embedded scaffolds to help students to argue and reason their comments in the blog are required to foster blog-supported collaborative learning.

Research Learning discussion Based on the Network Blog Environment

Research Learning discussion Based on the Network Blog Environment

Interacting for learning: Digital portfolios for a learning community in a university course

This study investigates student interactions in a blog-based learning community in a university course. In addition, this study explores the dynamics of group interactions in individual blog-based environments compared with collaborative wiki-based educational activities. A learning community of 56 graduate students wrote individual blogs and weekly group summaries using a wiki environment. The posts were analyzed by identifying a post content type and explicit feedback promotions, and by counting the number of the blogger's own comments and the number of others’ comments per post, received from peers studying in the same versus the other offline group. The results show that choosing the appropriate type of post content (i.e., sharing experiences rather than providing information, explicitly calling for feedback, and providing the blogger's own comments) augments peer interaction in a blog environment, thus explaining 51.4% of variance in peer comments. Group interactions through comments in individual blogs, without the possibility of changing one another's content, seem to be non-intrusive and prompt interactions with offline as well as with online peers. In contrast, actual editing of texts through multi-authored collaborative wikis remained affected by student offline former acquaintance. The results are discussed in terms of social interactions and pedagogical beliefs.

“You have to know the past to (blog) the present:” Using an Educational Blog to Engage Students in U.S. History

In this study the authors investigate whether a whole-class educational blog could facilitate culturally relevant instruction and authentic intellectual work in U.S. history. Qualitative data were collected and analyzed that included student comments posted to an educational blog, classroom observations, and follow-up interviews. Based on the analysis, the authors determined four major findings: (a) Students were able to engage in historical analysis while working in the blog environment when it was focused on a single source and included a hard scaffold; (b) when students situated the activities in relevant cultural experiences, they were able to better use their prior knowledge;(c) a variety of affordances related to blogging encouraged and supported students as they completed their work; and (d) the blogging activities were constrained by the limits of students’ literacy and historical skills, and the limits of technology.

Understanding customer experiences in online blog environments

Blogs have recently become an influential medium and have demonstrated enormous marketing power. Consumers can freely conduct ongoing information searches through this new channel. However, the credibility of blogs plays an important role in creating opportunities for positive customer experiences that can shape consumers’ product/service purchase intentions and decisions. In light of this observation, this study proposes a theoretical framework that delineates the relationship among information credibility, customer experiences, and purchase intention in the blog environment. Data collected from 468 subjects in specific corporate blogs provide support for the proposed model using partial least squares (PLS). The results indicate that information credibility is critical for facilitating customer experiences, which, in turn, is necessary to enhance purchase intention. Additionally, greater involvement with blog significantly increases the effect of customer experiences on purchase intention. The detailed theoretical and managerial implications are presented.

Birds of a feather: How personality influences blog writing and reading

The rapid development of blogs as a social networking tool has greatly increased the number of people who are expressing themselves in text published online. As yet little is known about the social psychology of online interaction using recently developed Web 2.0 functionalities. To what extent do principles of social psychology carry over into the online domain and how can appropriate use of those principles assist in activities such as community building, e-commerce, marketing, and personalization of services? There would seem to be a large number of novel research questions that can be posed with respect to online interaction. One pertinent question concerns the extent to which compatibility of personality influences online interaction. We investigated this question in terms of hypotheses derived from the personality research literature, using a two-part experiment. In the first study, eight participants wrote blogs in two distinct genres (personal diaries and commentaries) and rated their own personalities. In the second study 12 different participants judged the personality of authors as implied in the blog texts created in the first study. Those participants also completed a personality questionnaire and rated their attraction to the blog text author. Readers of the blog corpus were able to consistently judge the personality of the writers based solely on the text that they wrote. Moreover, they followed a well-established social rule regarding interpersonal attraction in real-life interaction. Blog readers were significantly more attracted to blog writers with more similar personalities—offering support that in a blog environment, “birds of a feather flock together.” Emotion word use in the blog corpus correlated with writer’s personality, suggesting that online personality may be signalled by linguistic cues. The two most popular genres of blog writing, personal journal and commentary, differed in how accurately readers judged author personality traits. Based on the results obtained it is suggested that personality is an important determinant and that further research on how people communicate with blogs will be relevant to social network analysis and to marketing.

Demographic differences and the antecedents of blog stickiness

PurposeWhile many studies have focussed on web site stickiness, little is known about the antecedents of blog stickiness such as visit duration and user retention. How demographic differences affect the antecedents of blog stickiness is another research question. Based on social cognitive theory, the IS success model and individual differences theory, this study aims to explore blog quality, the need for cognition, and social influence as the antecedents of blog stickiness.Design/methodology/approachThe subjects of this study were users who had blog reading experience. The structural equation modelling (SEM) approach was used to evaluate the research model.FindingsAfter surveying 231 blog users, the results demonstrate that content is still king in the blog environment. Social influence affects the duration of visits to a blog, but not the retention to the blog. Female readers are mainly interested in content, while males are more interested in system quality and social influence. While blog veterans or heavy users care about content and social influence, blog “newbies” care about context and system quality. Students and non‐students also have different antecedents of blog stickiness.Originality/valueThis study increases understanding of blog stickiness and suggests avenues for future research.

사용자 적합성 피드백과 구루 평가 점수를 고려한 블로그 검색 방법

Most Web search engines use ranking methods that take both the relevancy and the importance of documents into consideration. The importance of a document denotes the degree of usefulness of the document to general users. One of the most successful methods for estimating the importance of a document has been Page-Rank algorithm which uses the hyperlink structure of the Web for the estimation. In this paper, we propose a new importance estimation algorithm for the blog environment. The proposed method, first, calculates the importance of each document using user`s bookmark and click count. Then, the Guru point of a blogger is computed as the sum of all importance points of documents which he/she wrote. Finally, the guru points are reflected in document ranking again. Our experiments show that the proposed method has higher correlation coefficient than the traditional methods with respect to correct answers.